Ethics [Thursday, March 21, 2013, 2nd period]

[sith_happened]

"Today we are going to discuss the ethics of a situation you will be pushed into throughout your lives--," Anakin said, "--working in a group. whether it's for a grade or for a job, the prevailing theory is that more people working together is a good idea even if inevitably there is always one member who is absolutely dead weight that you will want to kill."

Anakin made a slight face. "All right, the scenario is this: you're in a group with four other people. You have a project due in two weeks on a subject you don't know anything about. One of the members of the group can only meet for a half hour once a week and never checks their email, two of the others spend their time making out instead of working, and the third one works hard but can't spell even a little bit. After you turn in your project, your teacher wants to know how your group worked. Do you tell the truth, knowing it will sink the other people's grades?"

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Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

[pulseof_life]

"I think that even if we did not tell the teacher how it had gone that the teacher would know," Yeul said, shrugging slightly. "My own attention to detail can be erratic and that would leave only the poor speller to have done most of the work. How could the teacher not know in the face of that?"

Yeul had no problems admitting that she would likely be part of the problem in this scenario.

Re: Answer the discussion question [3/21]

[sith_happened]

Anakin smiled. "We do tend to know you better than you'd probably prefer," he said.